Improvement in halters



R. SCHMIDT.

Halters.

N0.l53,724'- Patented Aug. 4,1874.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REINHARD SCHMIDT, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

IMPROVEMENT |N HALTERs. I

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,724, dated August4, 1874; application filed April 29, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REiNHARD SGHMTDT, of Milwaukee, in the county ofMilwaukee in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvementsin Halters, of which the following is a specification My invention hasfor its object the hitching of horses; and consists in a rope withsnaphooks on its ends, and a ring and runner on the rope, in which thesnap-l1ook at one end of the halter is snapped, and then a slip-noose isformed, so that, it' clasped around a post or any projection, it Willhold secure, While the other end is hitched to the bridle or any otherfixture on the head of a horse.

Figure l is a vieur of my invention.

A is the halter rope; B B', the end of the rope formed into grummets,into which the snap-hooks C C are secured. D is aleather slide ontherope, Which clasps around and slides on it. E is a ring, which passesthrough the two edges ofthe leather slide D, and through this ring therope A passes, so that the force pulling ou the rope A brings the strainon ring E and the rope A, and not directly on the slide, the slide onlyfacilitating the sliding of the ring on the rope.

The hook C is hooked into ring E, and as the halter-rope is pulled thenoose formed by the hook C hooked into the ring E is slipped up andclasped firmly around anything that may be Within the noose.

I claim as my invention- A halter consisting ofthe rope A, provided withhooks C C and slide D, in combination with ring E, connected to saidslide, and clasp-4 ing around the rope, substantially as de- QUINCY A.OLIVER.

